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CPW Announces Development Grant Awards for Shooting Ranges
The funds will go toward developing new shooting ranges and to upgrade existing ranges.
Colorado Shooting Range Development Grants fund eight shooting ranges
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has awarded $725,000 to eight shooting ranges across Colorado through the agency’s Shooting Range Development Grant Program (SRDG). The funds will go toward developing new shooting ranges and to upgrade existing ranges.
SRDG supports the establishment, improvement and expansion of safe shooting facilities in Colorado and is one of the largest shooting range programs in the nation. Since 2010, SRDG has awarded more than $3.3 million in funding to more than 70 shooting and archery projects across Colorado.
The program's funds come from federal excise taxes generated by the sale of hunting and shooting equipment, in addition to funds generated by license fees. Local partners in the projects also commit at least 25 percent in matching funds for the work.
Each year, SRDG maximizes its impact by providing matching grants to towns, counties, outdoor recreation organizations, shooting clubs, parks and recreation departments and others. These projects establish, improve or expand shooting ranges and shooting areas - including archery ranges - throughout the state. The 8 projects approved for funding this year include more than $576,000 in local matching funds.
CPW Northeast Deputy Regional Manager Tom Kroening said the Boulder Rifle Club and Clear Creek County Range shooting grants are great examples of the work done by our group, the Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting Management Partnership.
“Back in 2013, the U.S. Forest Service, CPW and four Colorado counties – Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin and Larimer – formed the partnership to develop a plan to provide safe, responsible and accessible recreational sport shooting opportunities while addressing conflicts near residential areas and with other recreation users across the northern Colorado Front Range,” Kroening said.
Details on our progress on shooting ranges can be found on our website.
Boulder Rifle Club
Kroening said the Boulder Rifle Club grant “will provide funding to start the initial construction of a new range in order to build out and provide more public opportunity in the future. It’s a good example of working together. It’s the rifle club and Colorado Parks and Wildlife working together to provide more opportunities for Front Range shooters to go practice with their firearm in Boulder County along the Front Range. And it will eventually alleviate some of the impact of shooting currently occurring on U.S. Forest Service property in the area.”
Clear Creek Sportsmen’s Club
Kroening said Clear Creek County is looking to take an area that used to be a fairgrounds and convert it into a public shooting range. The site is next to an existing private range, so any additional impact should be minimal. “The planning grant will help them make their idea a reality,” he said.
View the full CPW press release here.
The Shooting Range Development Grants awarded in 2019 include:
Southeast Region
Royal Gorge Gun Club
New trap and skeet range
$16,500
Pike and San Isabel National Forest – Planning and Design
Site selection, planning, and design for new range
$81,000
Northeast Region
Northern Colorado Rod and Gun Club
Renovation – major safety and facility upgrades
$85,000
Boulder Rifle Club
Initial construction of new range
$300,000
Clear Creek County Range
Planning and design of a new range
$90,000
Northwest Region
Meeker Sportsmen’s Club
Target relocation, new berms
$85,000
Summit County Shooting Range
Culvert and building realignment to reduce erosion
$28,000
Grand Junction Trap Club
Roof and restroom renovations
$39,500 |
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The purpose of the Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting Management Partnership is to develop a landscape-level, multi-jurisdictional strategy to provide safe, responsible and accessible recreational sport shooting opportunities while addressing conflicts near residential areas and with other recreation users across the northern Colorado Front Range.
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